The New Localism

What Mamdani’s Election Can Teach Us About Housing

New York’s Mayor-elect proved that affordability is a top priority for voters. Can American cities make rents lower and also build more housing?

By Bruce Katz, Michael Saadine and Josh Humphries
Guest Commentary

What PA Dems can Learn from Zohran Mamdani

It’s not the progressive stances of the New York City mayoral primary winner. It’s his practical solutions for low- and middle-income communities that appeal to voters

By Oliver Bateman

Mister Softee, Please Shut Up

A local resident, and her neighbors, have had it with the constant, torturous ice cream truck jingle, not to mention the lack of food safety licenses. Is there anything they can do?

By Kristen Demilio

Cities Will Save The Country

Drexel’s Metro Finance director on the return of “New Localism” in the second age of Trump

By Bruce Katz and Florian Schalliol
New Urban Order

Expand — Yes, Expand — Public Transit

New York City, Seattle and Sydney are doubling down on public transportation amid the ongoing work-from-home trend. Why this counterintuitive move is an idea Philly should steal

By Diana Lind
Listen

Business as Unusual

In the latest installment of The Citizen’s acclaimed podcast, Kathryn Wylde, CEO of Partnership for New York, shares the secrets to — and power of — harnessing cities’ business communities.

By Jessica Blatt Press

What Can Philly Learn from NYC’s Mayor’s Race?

Our mayoral elections have often tended (lightly anyway) to mirror what happened in New York, Philly 3.0’s engagement editor says. What does this month’s race in NYC mean for Philly?

By Jon Geeting
Ideas We Should Steal

Moving The Needle on Poverty

New York is the only big American city that has cut its poverty rate. Mayor Bloomberg’s former anti-poverty czar talks about making it happen by taking risks

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

IDNYC

A plan to provide IDs for Philly’s poor and undocumented should take a lesson from New York City

By Hannah Keyser

The New Guard Party Bus

We took a group of young disruptors to Pennsylvania Society…and returned with a heightened sense of possibility

By Larry Platt